Suspected drug ring busted in Canberra

Police have raided 10 north Canberra properties, uncovering what they say is a major drug syndicate. Source: AAP A MAJOR drug ring has been busted in the national capital, with a Canberra man set to face court charged with trafficking drugs....

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Iran billionaire executed over $2.8b fraud

A BILLIONAIRE businessman at the heart of a $US2.6 billion ($A2.8 billion) state bank scam, the largest fraud case since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, has been executed, state television reports. Authorities put Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, also...

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Gunmen fire inside El Salvador bus, kill 6

Police in El Salvador say gunmen boarded a bus in a town near the capital killing six people. Source: AAP POLICE in El Salvador say gunmen boarded a bus in a town near the capital and opened fired on passengers, killing six. National...

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Pope set to begin Middle East pilgrimage

The Vatican has billed Pope Francis' first visit to the Middle East as a "pilgrimage of prayer". Source: AAP POPE Francis has headed for Jordan at the start of a Middle East tour aimed at boosting ties with Muslims and Jews as well as easing...

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Charities regulator appeals against cut

ONLY firms afraid of transparency stand to benefit from the scrapping of the nation's charities watchdog. That's the view of the man who chairs the advisory board of the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission, which is set for the...

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Principal didn't consider kids' protection

A FORMER Perth headmaster has told a royal commission he didn't factor in the protection of children when deciding against sacking a teacher later convicted of sex abuse. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child sexual abuse...

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Orphan bear cub charms police in Oregon

POLICE in southern Oregon have held an unlikely suspect: a well-behaved black bear cub. Police Chief Don Brown says a teenage boy and his parents brought the cub to the police station in a large plastic storage bin on Monday. The boy found...

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College didn't lobby for funds: Abbott

Tony Abbott has described questions about his daughter Frances' scholarship as "dirt digging". Source: AAP PRIME Minister Tony Abbott says he wasn't lobbied by a friend to allow private colleges to access government subsidies. The federal...

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Qld Labor leader cries for grandfather

A Queensland Labor MP has refused to apologise for comparing fly-in, fly-out mines to the Holocaust. Source: AAP QUEENSLAND'S opposition leader has cried in parliament as she recalled her grandfather's seven years in a Nazi labour camp after...

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NZ-Thai sentenced for offending monarch

A 65-YEAR-OLD Thai woman, now living in New Zealand, has been given a suspended jail sentence by a Thai Criminal court after being found guilty of breaching Thailand's laws protecting the monarchy. Thitinant Kaewchantranont, was arrested on...

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PM Abbott defends daughter scholarship

A scholarship awarded to Frances Abbott was based on merit, says her father Tony Abbott. Source: AAP PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has defended his daughter's scholarship from a design college chaired by a Liberal Party donor and friend. Frances...

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Motorbike and truck collide, rider dead

A 45-YEAR-OLD man is dead after his motorbike collided head-on with a truck in Tasmania's north. Rain was falling when the crash occurred near Sheffield just before 1pm on Thursday. Police say the motorbike crossed to the wrong side of the...

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Vic paramedics rescue men from burning car

VICTORIAN paramedics have pulled an unconscious man from a burning car and saved the life of his passenger. When ambulance workers Amanda Stolk and Colin Kicker responded to reports of a car crash in Dandenong on Tuesday night, they found two...

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Fatal crash on Vic peninsula

A SECOND man has died after a car smashed into the garage of a house on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. The car, with three men in it, veered off the road and ploughed into the garage in the beachside suburb of Dromana on Sunday night. A Somerville...

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Sydney bus driver demolishes wall

A bus has hit two vehicles and demolished a family's front yard wall in Sydney early on Wednesday. Source: AAP A BUS has hit two vehicles and demolished a family's front yard wall in Sydney. Police will question the 74-year-old driver...

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10-year-olds hurt after minibus rolls

A mini-bus has rolled on its side after colliding with a car in Melbourne, injuring two children. Source: AAP TWO children have been taken to hospital after a school mini-bus accident in Melbourne. The mini-bus and a car collided in Northcote...

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Hawke wants Aust a nuclear one-stop shop

Bob Hawke says Australia should enrich uranium and store nuclear power plant waste. Source: AAP FORMER prime minister Bob Hawke says Australia should start enriching uranium and disposing of nuclear waste in its most geologically stable state...

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GP fee 'contradicts' close the gap target

Indigenous groups warn the government that charging people to see doctors will increase inequality. Source: AAP THE Abbott government's plan to charge sick people to see their doctors will contradict its aim of closing the gap on indigenous...

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"Everything is gone": Lin grandfather

Grandfather Yang Fei Lin described the moment he heard about the killing of five family members. Source: AAP THE morning after five members of his family were murdered, grandfather Yang Fei Li received a call from the alleged killer telling...

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Tough budget necessary: Treasury Sec

Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson says Australians needs to know the nation faces a challenges. Source: AAP THE Australian public needs to know that the nation faces a challenge and a tough budget was necessary, Treasury Secretary Martin...

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WA abuse victims to tell their stories

THE royal commission investigating child sex abuse in institutions will hold private sessions in the Kimberley region of Western Australia on Monday. Officers from the commission will be in Broome and Kununurra to meet with people interested...

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Budget of 'increased taxes' unites Labor

PM Tony Abbott appears to have backed away from his threat to hold a double dissolution election. Source: AAP AUSTRALIANS are listening to the Abbott government but some may be confused about what they're hearing, the prime minister says. ...

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Iran's Zarif says nuclear deal 'possible'

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that clinching a final nuclear deal with world powers is still "possible" despite a tough round of talks this week. "Agreement is possible. But illusions need to go. Opportunity shouldn't...

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Eastern Ukrainians rap Kiev in talks

Lawmakers and officials from eastern Ukraine have criticised the fledging central government. Source: AAP LAWMAKERS and officials from eastern Ukraine have poured criticism on the fledging central government, accusing it of ignoring legitimate...

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